XlRI Jamshedpur is gearing up to host the third edition of TEDxXlRI on December 13. Themed Soaring High: Ideas Scaling New Heights, the event features speakers from myriad walks of life.
In the run up to the event, the XlRI campus is abuzz with excitement with regard to the upcoming event which is a major highlight of the year.
The speakers at this year’s event are: Anand Pillai: Managing Director of leadership Matters Inc. and chief learning officer at Reliance Industries ltd., . Pillai has more than 31 years of rich experience in the corporate world.
Rasika Shekar, a trained vocalist and flautist both in Carnatic and Hindustani classical music, is the voice behind Bollywood songs in 2 States, Kill Dill and has performed in MTV’s Coke Studio season 2.
Mani Vajipeyajula, with dual MBAs from Columbia Business School and UC Berkley, is the founder and CEO of Banyan Nation, a high technology social venture. Harish Iyer: A social rights activist, Iyer was named as one of the 100 most influential lGBT people in the world for 2013, by The Guardian, a British national daily. Archana Sardana: India’s first woman civilian BASE jumper, a certified skydiver, mountaineer and scuba diver, she also has a diploma in Interior Designing and runs a Scuba Diving Academy in Delhi. Kunal Rao: A retired chartered accountant, Rao is a stand-up comedian who has performed more than 300 shows across India.
Rajiv Jayaraman an INSEAD MBA and a BITS-Pilani alumnus, he is the Founder-CEO of Knolscape, the products of which are used by top-10 B-schools across the world and in Fortune 500 companies.
Meghana Panta a novelist and a financial journalist, she has interviewed President Obama, Mukesh Ambani, Sir Richard Branson, Hillary Clinton, Ratan Tata and Shah Rukh Khan among others. She is the author of One & A Half Wife and Happy Birthday!
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a programme of local, self-organised events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TED Talks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organised TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organised.